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Hands-On Visual Studio 2022

By : Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia, Hector Uriel Perez Rojas
Book Image

Hands-On Visual Studio 2022

By: Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia, Hector Uriel Perez Rojas

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2022 is the complete and ideal integrated development environment (IDE) for creating large, complex, and scalable applications. It is one of the most complete tools available for development, especially with Microsoft technologies. This book will teach you how to take advantage of the tools available with this IDE to write clean code faster. You’ll begin by learning how to set up and start Visual Studio 2022 and how to use all the tools provided by this IDE. You will then explore key combinations, tips, and additional utilities that can help you to code faster and review your code constantly. Next, you will see how to compile, debug, and inspect your project to analyze its current behavior using Visual Studio. The book also shows you how to insert reusable blocks of code writing simple statements. Later, you will learn about visual aids and artificial intelligence that will help you improve productivity and understand what is going on in the project. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up your development environment using Visual Studio 2022, personalize the tools and layout, and use shortcuts and extensions to improve your productivity.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Visual Studio Overview
7
Part 2: Tools and Productivity
13
Part 3: GitHub Integration and Extensions

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio (VS) is the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) for .NET developers. It's the perfect tool to design, develop, debug, and deploy all .NET applications and even other technologies.

In this chapter, you will learn about the history, historical versions, and installation process of VS, as well as the initial configurations to start working with this IDE. After learning about the VS flavors, you will be able to choose the option that best suits your needs.

By the end of this chapter, you will get a brief overview of VS's history and understand the main evolutionary changes across its different versions. You will also learn how to install and start using this amazing tool.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following main topics:

  • A brief history of VS
  • VS flavors
  • Installing VS 2022
  • VS for Mac